Using Visual Basic with AutoCAD

by Andrew G. Roe

Customizing AutoCAD is easy when you know how to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the powerful programming language which Autodesk has integrated into AutoCAD R14.01. With VBA, you can develop... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076680366X
• ISBN13: 9780766803664
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A straight forward guide.

Andrew Roe's book provides experienced AutoCAD users with the right amount and complexity of material to start creating visual basic programs for many useful tasks. It is very well targeted to beginning visual basic developers that are already familiar with AutoCAD. This allows the book to bypass redundant and tiresome sections on basic CAD skills and get right to the meat of VB and VBA programming. The sections on crossing application boundaries, while very basic, are especially useful. I would recommend this book to all cad users and managers who need a succinct text to help them begin implementing Visual Basic in their offices.

Great for the beginning VBA programmer.

This book provides a good base for someone starting out programming AutoCAD with VBA. It assumes you know AutoCAD, but have only limited experience with Visual Basic. It provides some helpful examples on exchanging data with other VBA-enabled products, such as those in Microsoft Office, and also shows you how to "drive" AutoCAD with stand-alone VB. A few more complex applications would have been helpful, but it will definitely get you up and running.